2010 IHRA National Event Schedule
 

Crandall and Tulsa are gone. Looks like D4 races are going to do alot of traveling if you want to run IHRA next year.




2010 IHRA Nitro Jam Schedule

Jan. 29-30 (Fri-Sat) Palm Beach International Raceway West Palm Beach, FL
March 6-7 (Sat-Sun) State Capital Raceway Baton Rouge, LA
May 1-2 (Sat-Sun) Rockingham Dragway Rockingham, NC
June 18-19 (Fri-Sat) Rocky Mountain Raceways Salt Lake City, UT
June 25-27 (Fri-Sat-Sun) Castrol Raceway Edmonton, ALB *
July 16-18 (Fri-Sat-Sun) Grand Bend Motorplex Grand Bend, ONT *
TBD U.S. 131 Motorsports Park Martin, MI
Aug. 28-29 (Sat-Sun) Maryland International Raceway Budds Creek, MD
Sep. 11-12 (Sat-Sun) New England Dragway Epping, NH
Oct. 15-16 (Fri-Sat) Virginia Motorsports Park Richmond, VA

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Reading the "entire" article it states that Crandell is not gonna have a Nitro Jam but will still be part of the sportsman series. Sounds like they may still have a divisional race.

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Dumping Crandall was DUMB !!!!
I guess ihra does not want a race in the BIG DFW market ??
I was going to join ihra........no use wasting the $$ now....... :-)

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TBD U.S. 131 Motorsports Park Martin, MI


Maybe I'm reading into this too much,but normally,if dates haven't been decided...it says TBA
"TO BE ANNOUNCED"

To me,TBD means "TO BE DETERMINED",as if it hasn't been decided by somebody to have a race there?

Maybe they want to have a NATIONAL event instead?

They seem concerned about making sure the 1000ft is all concrete.

http://www.us131motorsportspark.com/readmore.asp?id=170

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The IHRA Crandall National event this year was scheduled on the same weekend as the NHRA Heartland Park National event. That timing was almost fatal for the Dallas track. Topeka drew far more sportsman entries from the area....it wasn't even close. The front gate at Dallas was also abysmal.

The facility is IHRA National caliber, and they may well have had the option to try hosting a Nitro Jam event in 2010. If offered the same scenario for next year as was this year, I would have, as a track operator, turned it down.

While on the subject of scheduling, the Utah Nitro Jam event for 2010 is scheduled for the same weekend as what is traditionally the LODRS event at Bandimere. The NHRA Div 5 schedule hasn't been released, but if the Bandimere LODRS is on the same weekend, Utah will be hurt.

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Crandall is a nice little track. Operative word: little. It was almost too small to park all the IHRA div racers. Some were in the mud. It's a nice little local bracket track, they need more room. It won't hold enough race rigs for an NHRA div 4 race. Imho, it's laid out a little strange. I think IHRA needs it. I probably won't run IHRA next year. I'm going to miss them. I really like the officials. Nice friendly folks.
Sure looks like a lot of towing miles.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the Div 4 NHRA officials too. Chuck Nelson and Wesley are the best.
Don is almost talking to me now. <G> The other tech guys are great, I just can't remember all their names. (I'm old)

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Does anybody know why Mr. Earwood isn't coming back for the World Finals?? Maybe it's a little selfish..but it's so close to home..lol..I also understand that Virginia is back with IHRA..(thank goodness)..but why not keep Rock for the fall and add Virginia as a seperate entity...this may be a shot in the dark..as I don't know any of the facts..just sounds reasonable..lol

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Saturation of the market. Comp+ article: http://www.competitionplus.com/index...-morning-news2

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Travis,
Rockingham Raceway needs alot of work. Track and Pits. I have raced there 20 plus years and no improvement. They need to spend some money.:)

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I was told Rockingham would have a fall race (SPORTSNATS MAYBE)???????? I think VMP World Finals was one of those "throw the dog a bone" deals to get them to switch. I also heard Earwood was willing to give up that race to help with the VMP deal. We lost 1 Rockingham race but gained an awesome facility in VMP. It has to help with the future of IHRA.
Chip

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Chip, what future? lol

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Boy, Yall kill me with all this negative talk and bashing.As i see it, it will be better for sportsman racers. I work for IHRA and i see positve things happening for sportsman and the fans. This is not NHRA and don't want to be. I agree there are things that need tweeking a little. Look at it this way ,we all still have more than one place to race.You as a sportsman racer are used to the same old thing that IHRA has always done and you have to admit, it don't work like it used to.At least this has not effected the sportsman side in any way other than being better.You used to complain ,too many days sitting around, too much time off work ,and waiting for pros to run on schedule , and sometimes loosing a qualifying run, (weather ,which no one can control except for the good lord above) ect.....,so now it is a two day NITRO JAM ( National).All i can say if this" PRO SHOW" works and it puts fans in the seats then sponsors will see this and maybe start stepping up on their contingincy program(after all that is what they want is exposure to sell their product), which means they would not mind paying more for more results.Most all of us at one time or another have talked about spectator count at some of these events.If you have suggestions that you think might help, i am sure they will listen and consider some of these . I wish i could come up with a perfect organization that would please every racer ,but we all know that ain't gonna happen.Heck, i'm happy we still have IHRA and will try my best to support it so we can keep it and you should too.Try this new deal first before you judge it, you may be surprised ! Hope to see all you at some point and time next year at one or more races. I will be at all the NITRO JAM events supporting what i love so much. THINK POSSITIVE !!!!Sorry for the long vent here . I feel better now.

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Duane,
Get off your ***** and come race. Bring some of your scared "HOLIER THAN THOU" Nhra buddies with you too. Then maybe there will be a future.
Chip

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Danny sr. i agree,some people never realize there are others in their corner trying to make things better.When it comes to the point of hardly no places to race it will be too late to say , "well maybe we shoulda gave them a chance . some see it , others never will

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I am still confused on how the Sportsman part works. Or more so when it will be ran. Exactly when do the sportsman race at a national event? They keep saying it will run with out waiting but I don't see how.

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If I understood it correctly, Sportsman have all morning and well into the afternoon to take care of their qualifying and eliminations as needed each day. No "interruptions" from the Pro cars. Then the Pro cars have the late afternoon and evening for their show while the sportsman call it a day.

No Pro oildowns to worry about, no late runs, out relatively early to eat, to the motel or home. It sounds like a good deal!


442OLDS - This quote is part of a news release from IHRA:

"The final half of the schedule will remain similar to 2009 with U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Mich., Maryland International Raceway in Budds Creek, Md. and New England Dragway in Epping, N.H. holding down summer dates. Maryland International Raceway will host its event August 28-29 and New England Dragway will hold down a date the weekend of September 11-12."

http://www.ihra.com/article/5329.html

Travis - I'm not sure, but it's possible.....weather has often been a problem at the World Finals. Perhaps that may have been a part of the reason for moving it to Virginia. Despite it not being that much further away and being further north, hopefully it will make a difference.

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Hey little D, I believe you have been called out. Mike

Mike Galuk
JOE COOL RACING
M/SA-2000

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Danny, being close to IHRA can you tell us if Top Sportsman and Top Dragster, considered sportsman categories, will run during the day and finish? Or will they qualify during the day and then run eliminations between the Pros at night?

Drake Hooke

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I honestly cannot answer that until the day by day schedule is posted for each race.I know this past year top sportsman and top dragster were run during the pro qualifying sessions, i would guess to give the spectators some really fast sportsman cars to watch.At any rate it will be more sportsman friendly.

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Thanks Myron. That is great as long as the car counts are low. If there is a high car count I assume they will stop the sportsman when the Pro's are schedueled. Then finish them after the Pro show. Is it a seperate show each day for the sportsman. Or spread across the two days?

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Sportsman are one show. It looks like they may have qualifying and a round or two on the first day and the rest on the 2nd day. I would hope that they get the sportsman schedule in before the Pros start because it could be pretty late.

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That was to be the plan the last i heard.

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Chip, yeah your right i did go to waaay more nhra races this year then ihra...maybe ill come out of "retirement" for one more year. (between not working and getting divorced its been hard to go race my car, but rest assured ill be back)
Hell i try to have alittle fun with a comment and look what it turns into....LOL

Trying to see those in attendence at Fayetteville in 2 weeks...then on to Kinston....

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May see ya at Kinston
Chip